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Chapter 1: Introduction To VBA: Hurricane Electric

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. It allows users to customize Microsoft Office applications like Excel using Visual Basic programming. VBA is built into Office applications and allows users to create macros and programs that extend the functionality of Office. The document discusses how VBA can be used to automate tasks in Excel by placing command buttons on spreadsheets and writing code that is executed when the buttons are clicked.

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Chapter 1: Introduction To VBA: Hurricane Electric

VBA stands for Visual Basic for Applications. It allows users to customize Microsoft Office applications like Excel using Visual Basic programming. VBA is built into Office applications and allows users to create macros and programs that extend the functionality of Office. The document discusses how VBA can be used to automate tasks in Excel by placing command buttons on spreadsheets and writing code that is executed when the buttons are clicked.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to VBA


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VBA is the acronym for Visual Basic for Applications. It is an integration of the Microsoft's event-driven
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applications you build with MS Excel is called Visual Basic for Applications, or simply VBA.

You can program VBA in every version of Microsoft Office, including MS Office 97, MS Office2000, MS
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There are two ways which you could program a VBA, one is to place a command button on the spreadsheet and start programming by clicking the command button,
another one is to write Visual Basic functions inside the VB Editor. Lets start with the command button first. In order to place a command button on the spreadsheet, you
need to click View on the MS Excel menu bar and then click on toolbar and finally select the Control Toolbox after which the control toolbox bar will appear. Then you click
on the command buttton and draw it on the spreadsheet.

Next, you click on the command button and the Visual Basic Editor will appear. Then you enter the statement as shown in the figure. The first statement will fill up cell A1
to cell A10 with the phrase "Visual Basic" while the second statement add the value in cell A11 and cell B11 and then show the sum in cell C11. It is that simple.

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